7 killed in Indonesia landslides
Tue, May 11 2021 01:57:22 PM
Jakarta, May 11 (IANS): Seven people were killed, nine others injured and one person was still missing in landslides at a gold mining site in Indonesia s West Sumatra province, the national agency for disaster management s spokesman Raditya Jati said on Tuesday.
Quoting a report from Fikri, head of the emergency and logistics section of the local disaster management agency, Jati said the incident occurred after heavy rains lashed the Solok Selatan district from Sunday afternoon to Monday, reports Xinhua news agency.
Jati said in a statement that the local rapid reaction team had recovered the bodies of the dead and the injured had been sent to a community health centre for treatment.
2021-05-11 07:36:13 GMT2021-05-11 15:36:13(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
JAKARTA, May 11 (Xinhua) Seven people were killed, nine others injured and one was still missing in landslides of a gold mining site on Monday in Indonesia s West Sumatra province, the national agency for disaster management s spokesman Raditya Jati said on Tuesday.
Quoting a report from Fikri, head of the emergency and logistics section of the local disaster management agency, Jati said the incident occurred after heavy rains fell on the Solok Selatan district from Sunday afternoon to the wee hours of Monday.
Jati said in a statement that the local rapid reaction team had recovered the bodies of the dead and the injured had been sent to a community health center for treatment.
Tuesday, 11 May 2021 04:27 PM MYT
JAKARTA, May 11 Seven people were killed, nine others injured and one still missing in a landslides at a gold mining site on Monday in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province, Xinhua news agency quoted the national agency for disaster management’s spokesman Raditya Jati on Tuesday.
Quoting a report from Fikri, head of the emergency and logistics section of the local disaster management agency, Jati said the incident occurred after heavy rains fell on the Solok Selatan district from Sunday afternoon to the wee hours of Monday.
Jati said in a statement that the local rapid reaction team had recovered the bodies of the dead and the injured had been sent to a community health centre for treatment.
BNPB records 154 disasters in 3 weeks 20th January 2021
Residents look at the remains of the Mitra Manakarra Hospital which collapsed during a 6.2-magnitude quake in West Sulawesi. (ANTARA FOTO/AKBAR TADO)
The current high rainfall coupled with extreme weather has caused floods in several areas, including Malang and Puncak, Bogor Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia has recorded a total of 154 natural disasters in the first three weeks of 2021, as per data from the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB).
“(The disasters) were mostly floods, storms, and landslides,” spokesperson for BNPB’s COVID-19 Handling Task Force, Wiku Adisasmito, said at an online press conference originating from the BNPB building in Jakarta on Tuesday.